Maryalyce Merritt 

About Me:

I would like to earn employment for an ethically responsible organization where my creativity and innovative thinking are both recognized and appreciated as assets.  I would like to work for an organization that values individuals who work there. I am most productive in an environment with minimal supervision as I am quite self-motivated.  

I have three main areas of expertise:  the Entertainment Industry, Complimentary Healing & Spiritual Practices, and Animals, specifically dogs.  Parts of these overlap. 

I have been working in the theatrical industry since I was 16, and have spent most of that time offering customer service and sales for theatrical lighting manufacturers.  I have very long-standing and strong relationships with my customers in which I take great pride.  It has been an honor and a joy nurturing these relationships over the years. 

I also  I spend part of my time as a complimentary Healing Therapies Practitioner at Akasha's Journey.  I am a Reiki Master and Tuniing Fork Therapy Practitioner and Instructor, Advanced Level Integrated Therapy Practitioner, Aromatouch Practitioner, and I am certified in other modalities as well.  I am always seeking to expand my healing and teaching practice. 

I am an ordained Interfaith Minister.

I combine my experience as a Certified Dog Trainer with my love and compassion for dogs and offer training, healing therapies, pet ministry, grief counseling, and other things at Om My Doggie. 

I  am a volunteer for the American Bouvier Rescue League, and at one time I was the NY State Rescue Coordinator where I was responsible for intake, adoption, and education of all the Bouvier desFlandres dogs who came through New York.  

My dog & I are an Animal Assisted Therapy Team.

I am driven by love and compassion for all sentient beings.  I try my best every day to bring this energy to all I come into contact with.  I must work in an occupation and for an organization that I enjoy because the  customers and my co-workers become my extended family.  I have developed strong customer relations with my entertainment-industry dealers over the last 20 years and I like to believe that we have a mutual respect and concern for one another.  I am a very strong customer advocate!  I am an advocate for those who need a stronger voice and that spills into the philanthropic work that I choose to become involved with.  I enjoy learning immensely and am always teaching or taking  classes.  I have strong interpersonal skills.  I am dependable, honest,  and diligent.    I have exceptional organizational skills and a high degree of self-motivation at all levels of job performance.  I also get along well with co-workers, supervisors, and my peers.

Achievements:

Developed Strategic Marketing Plan for TBICO, Danbury, CT 

20years of customer service and sales experience in the entertainment industry with well established customer relationships.

23 years of experience in technical theatre.

Memberships:

                        Hands-On Trade Association

                        Sound Healers Association of America

                        American Bouvier Rescue League

                        Bouvier Owners of New England

                        North American Working Bouvier Association

                        American Bouvier desFlandres Club

                        New England Theatre Conference

Education:    Western Connecticut State University                                 Danbury, CT

                      B.B.A. Marketing

Favorite Quotation:

                   “Be prepared to meet your grace in every circumstance of love.”

                                                                                                -Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton